Posts Tagged ‘Phinnaeus’

Julia Roberts Cherishes Motherhood

March 17th, 2009 / Author: Valerie Nome

Twins Hazel and Phinnaeus, 4, and son Henry, 1, must be accustomed to their Oscar-winning mom Julia Roberts bragging about them.

What’s the best thing about being a mom?

“My kids!” Julia, 41, beams during the premiere for her spy thriller Duplicity held Monday at Ziegfeld Theatre in NYC.

Julia, who has been married to Danny Moder, 40, since 2002, makes being with her family the most important thing in her life.

“I think everybody’s priorities shift after awhile,” Duplicity costar Denis O’Hare, who also worked with Julia in Charlie Wilson’s War, says. “She made a really hard choice to be with her family at one point, and then she missed the movies, and so she came back but she still has responsibilities for her kids, and she’s figuring out how to do that. I think she’s a great mom. She’s at ease, which is the hallmark of a great mom.”

He continues, “I feel like she’s integrated her life really beautifully. She’s figured out how to have a life in New York with her family, and also continued to be in movies, and that’s a really hard thing to pull off. She’s done it gracefully.”

Clive Owen, who has two daughters, also worked with Julia in 2004’s Closer.  

“We had enormous fun before, and we enormous time again,” Clive says.

Duplicity is in theaters March 20.

Emma Roberts Holidays With Aunt Julia, Cousins

December 21st, 2008 / Author: Valerie Nome

Emma Roberts is having a blast.

Not only is the 17-year-old beauty an accomplished actress and singer, but she’s also the niece of Julia Roberts.

How do they spend the holidays together?

“I usually stay at home with my family,” the star of January’s Hotel For Dogs tells me. “A couple days before Christmas when we get our tree, we all decorate our tree together and have hot chocolate and family time. It’s important around the holidays.”

Emma enjoys sleepovers with her twin cousins Hazel and Phinnaeus, 4.  (Henry, 1, is too young to join in the parties.)

“We have so much fun running around and playing,” she tells me. “We read and play with dolls. We do what normal little kids do. I love them.”

For their birthdays last month, she bought them “really cute knit hats.” She also gave Hazel a doll, and Phinnaeus a dinosaur painting set.

What’s the best advice Aunt Julia has given her?

“I don’t really ask her for advice, to be honest. When we’re together — since we don’t really get to be together that often — we have family time.”

Hotel For Dogs is in theaters January 23.

-->